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What I really want to say with all this fairy tale defense is that fairy tales are true. I don't mean that there are dragons and griffons flying around in some magical forest somewhere but magic is real; not in the sense that we have come to know: that there is good and bad magic (its all bad actually) but it did get me thinking: if magic is real what other parts of fairy tales are true? Then I realized something: most of the stories started in everyday life. That may not seem remarkable but it tells the greatest truth about fairy tales: they are just about people that decide to take a stand and when they made that stand they don't give up. And that is why fairy tales get so much hate, because they don't tell a worry free story they tell a give-up free story. And our silver spoon fed society doesn't want to except that things aren't going to be handed to them.
JRR Tolkien was a Soldier in World War I one of the most hellish wars ever fought and he wrote a fairy tale that is loved by even this tech obsessed generation. Albert Eisenstein messed up the proof that eventually became E=MC2, partly because he didn't understand some of the laws that would affect the proof until later but instead of giving up he learned those laws. Both of these men not only read fairy tales but believed them. And I think that is the point of fairy tales: to take a stand, believe in your dreams and don't give up ever.
